Tests for cannabis are in my impression a little hard to find risks to tests for. Unlike alcohol and tobacco and alcohol, the risks of cannabis aren’t as pronounced as the relationship between cigarettes and cancer, or alcohol and car crashes.

As mentioned before – the risks awareness is being tested for, would need to be science and fact based. The New Zealand Drug Foundation provides a helpful, though not comprehensive summary of some health effects.

You could test for awareness of things like:

Cannabis can cause anxiety

There’s the potential that cannabis exasperate symptoms for people already susceptible to mental illness.

The risk of psychological addiction.

Three categories of drugs

I would put drugs in three categories:

Recreational consumer drugs. eg. tobacco, alcohol, cannabis

These drugs would be free for commercial sale to anyone who has the endorsement.

The cannabis industry would like resemble the beer industry. You would have some large commercial operations, as well as craft operations.

Higher risk psychedelic drugs eg. MDMA (ecstacy), LSD

These drugs would, as well as require the user to pass a test, would be prescription only. ie. everytime a user wanted to consume these drugs, they would need to ask their doctor for a prescription. This would prevent people from taking these drugs recklessly.

An option to consider here is that psychedelics could only be administered by an authorised medical professional. What could happen is that drugs could be administered in a controlled, research manner, even if the situation was at a festival.

Addictive hard drugs. eg. methamphetamine, heroin

These drugs should be treated as too dangerous to be administered freely.

However, for people who are already addicted, their addiction should be treated as a health condition.

Government run distribution centers that give administer the drugs, and track how much a user is using. At least that way addicts aren’t beholden to drug dealers, and the health system has a good deal of monitoring of peoples habits.